Comments on: Microsoft Fires Back at Flash-Powered MLB.com

By: IPL Cricket’s Online Video Fails To Deliver [NewTeeVee] | BYOHosting.com Blogs

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:24:13 +0000

[...] popularity of this ultra short-form of the sport, it was a good comeback for Microsoft, which was unceremoniously dropped by MLB.com in favor of incumbent, Adobe Flash. Well, as luck would have it, the [...]

By: IPL Cricket’s Online Video Offering Is An Epic Fail [GigaOM] | BYOHosting.com Blogs

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:23:48 +0000

By: IPL Cricket’s Online Video Fails To Deliver

IPL Cricket’s Online Video Fails To Deliver — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:30:14 +0000

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IPL Cricket Online Is An Epic Fail — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:27:03 +0000

By: Watch the Cricket IPL Tourney Online Via Silverlight [NewTeeVee] | BYOHosting.com Blogs

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:20:34 +0000

[...] Microsoft’s Silverlight multimedia technology was unceremoniously dropped by Major League Baseball’s MLB.com in favor of Adobe Flash, Microsoft is coming back [...]

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Watch the Cricket IPL Tourney Online Via Silverlight — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:37:18 +0000

[...] Tourney Online Via Silverlight After Microsoft’s Silverlight multimedia technology was unceremoniously dropped by Major League Baseball’s MLB.com in favor of Adobe Flash, Microsoft is coming back [...]

By: grusellag

grusellag — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:32:12 +0000

I read this story recently and was astonished at MLB's cheek. They are legendary among vendors as being difficult to work with and nearly impossible to satisfy. Anyone want to take bets that in two years or less they'll throw out Adobe (a perfectly decent company with great technology) for a bunch of tendentious reasons?

Meanwhile, Silverlight is getting great buzz among the people that I know who's work it is to deal with digital media. I'm no shill for Microsoft (Windows Vista anyone?), but this is a case of MLB abusing yet another supplier to them. I think they may find out that this time they're fighting two or three classes above their weight.

By: MLB’s Web Video Puts Everyone Else To Shame (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider) | Betting Baseball Coaching Club

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:12:27 +0000

[...] Gannes / NewTeeVee:Microsoft Fires Back at Flash-Powered MLB.com? —? Microsoft was none too happy to hear Bob Bowman, CEO of Major League Baseball Advanced [...]

By: Reviewing the new MLB.TV: Yes, it’s a winner | umpbump.com

Reviewing the new MLB.TV: Yes, it’s a winner | umpbump.com — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:23:57 +0000

[...] One of the major differences is the adoption of Adobe’s Flash technology over Microsoft’s Silverlight (which was used last year). It’s rumored that delivery glitches and installation issues are mainly what prompted baseball’s new media goons to make the switch, and it’s a no brainer. (It also sparked a war of words of sorts between MLBAM and Microsoft). [...]

By: Budanski

Budanski — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:06:29 +0000

once HTML 5.0 is implemented, this will be an non-issue.

By: Rupert.L

Rupert.L — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:32:22 +0000

I wanted to make an informed decision on whether I should subscribe to the service, so I searched MLB.TV on twitter, and what I saw was overwhelmingly positive. I think this story has legs because it's a battle between two big companies, which is always fun to watch.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:14:24 +0000

I just bought MLB to get televised games on the internet after having tried the demo version. The demo version worked great, but when I tried to watch the archived Yankees game from yesterday, it kept stopping, and I had to exit the system and go back in. It's a comfort to know that other people have this problem, and if it stays this bad I will cancel my subscription (I guess I have four days left to do that). However, it works at least part of the time, while I couldn't get last year's system to work at all.

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:50:36 +0000

Quality of Service over the public internet... consistent user experience... good luck with that, no matter what apps or plugins you're using.

This ain't OTA TV where you have an FCC mandating standards and a standardized hardware receiver.

By: ctreada

ctreada — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:43:09 +0000

Silverlight is far better than Flash for HD video, at least in my experience. Maybe MLB.com was up for bid & whored themselves out for a suboptimal multimedia experience. If I were a paying customer & baseball fan like Fred, I'd be pissed.

By: Fred Smythe

Fred Smythe — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:57:21 +0000

I have MLB.COM. For the 3 days I have been trying to watch baseball. Trying, I say because I have not watched one complete inning yet. I was advised my bandwidth of 2200 kps was very good. The action starts then the action stops.
When I complained I was told I could have a full refund, IF I was in the first 5 days of signing up.
Yea, it took me 2 week trying to get a spring training game.
Guess I’ll sit by my radio and listen. I would use game day audio, but that also stops ever so often.
Never again….

By: Senior Flasher

Senior Flasher — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:49:19 +0000

Within 2 months of release, Flash Player 10 already has > 50% penetration with variable bit-rate (aka Smooth Streaming). By now they're well over 120%!!! snark